Empanadas Colombianas - International Kitchen

Today in the international kitchen we fly for the first to....

COLOMBIA

One of our neighbors, best friend and collaborator in this blog comes from the South-American country; and he loves so much his culture and food that he showed us some of their typical dishes. 

This time we tried to make together one of the typical Colombian meat pasties that came to be one of the best appetizers I ever had!

We leave you down below the recipe he used and some pics of the process. We hope you enjoy the taste of the land of the coffee :)

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RECEIP

Meat and potatoes Colombian Pastry

INGREDIENTS:

For the pastry dough:

• 2 cups of corn flour (we used "Harina PAN")
• 2 cups of warm water
• A pinch of salt depending on you

For the filling:

• 250 grams of ground meat (can be pork meat but we used here beef meat)
• 2 potatoes middle size
• 1 onion
• 2 tomatoes
• 3-4 leafs of cilantro (not mandatory)
• one tablespoon of meat condiments (we used "Triguisar")
• Salt and pepper

DIRECTIONS:

For the dough, we mix the flour and the water in a bowl and we mix it a bit and then add the salt. Once we feel every ingredient is well mixed and integrated with the other, we let it settle at least for 3 minutes. Now the dough is ready!

For making the filling we will cut in small dices the onion and the potato and we will start frying it with olive oil in a medium heat .

Meanwhile the potato and the onion gets softer we will cut into small pieces the tomato.

Once the potato and the onion are done we will integrate the ground meat and when this gets done we will put the tomato.

When everything get well mixed we will add the condiments (the amount depends on each person).

We let it cook for a bit more and the filling is ready!

For frying we will take a big pan and fill it with sunflower oil.

Meanwhile the oil gets heated, we will do the pasties.

We will grab a ball of the dough and put it between two sheets of plastic paper. We will press it with a plate and then with a roll we will try to make it larger but not thiner or the pastry will break.

Then we put inside the filling (be aware of not putting in any kind of liquid from the mix, it does the pastry look weird).

Then we close the pastry and try to put together the borders of the "middle moon" we have created.

We keep doing it for the rest of the pastries.

When all are done, we put them into the boiling oil at medium heat and once they turn brown we can take the off.

We will let them cool in a plate covered with kitchen paper so it can absorb the extra oil.

Enjoy it with some guacamole, jalapeños or chili pepper sauce.

They were deliciosas!! 

BUEN PROVECHO!

You will find the colombian ingredients down below in case you don't know where to buy them:










Your cool team :)